Keith Lee was a two-way lineman for Hopkinton High before graduating in 1994. But for one glorious Thanksgiving he got to live the lineman’s dream. He played fullback against Ashland that morning.

Lee, 37, not only played fullback, he scored the game’s only touchdown, a score that propelled the Hillers into their first Super Bowl appearance in the school’s history.

"One of our starting backs had academic problems, so they put me at fullback," said Lee. "I caught a pass for the only touchdown in the game. That was the very first touchdown I had ever scored, at any level."

Lee, who was one of the captains his senior year, counts going to the Super Bowl that season and beating West Bridgewater as his number one football memory.

"We had started the year 1-2, losing to Westwood and Bellingham," he said. "It was great that we were able to regroup and end up in the Super Bowl. It was an unbelievably tough league that year."

Lee, who was 6-feet, 220 pounds in high school, remembers playing on the varsity as an eighth grader. "I remember playing in a game and being scared to death," he said.

Lee was also a member of the indoor track team, serving as a captain in both his junior and senior years. "We only had 11 kids on the team, so I did the shot put and the dash," said Lee.

Lee, who was inducted into the Hopkinton High Athletic Hall of Fame last year, also played baseball, where he was a first baseman.

"I have some great memories from high school baseball," said Lee. "My senior year we went to the tournament for the first time in something like 25-30 years. I can remember hitting two home runs against Norwell. Coach (Steve) Simoes put together a trip to Cooperstown where we played on Doubleday Field."

After high school, Lee went to UMass-Dartmouth where he played football as an offensive guard. "Playing college football was a good experience, but I didn’t graduate from college," said Lee.

He went to work for Staples in Bellingham where he met his future wife, Gilda, who was attending Framingham State at the time. They were married in 2000.

Keith and Gilda Lee moved to North Carolina where they started a family. "We moved back to Milford in 2006," said Keith. "We now have four sons: Alexander (10), Mario (9), Keith (7) and William (4).

Lee currently works for J.L. Marshall & Sons, a company that does major concrete projects. "I’m a cement finisher," he said. "I work out of Local 40 in Rhode Island. We do very large projects. For example, we did part of the construction on Gillette Stadium."

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